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一封不寻常的家书 　　There was once a mother who had two daughters. She loved her daughters dearly, but from their earliest years, the two girls would quarrel fight with each other. As they grew older, their enmity hardened, and they became totally estranged from each other. As adults, they would have no contact with each other. They grew completely apart. 　　As you can imagine, this caused the mother great pain. She agonized about how she might possibly bring them back together. And then she had an idea. She got out her pen, and she wrote a letter to them both. In this letter, she told them, over and over again, how very much she loved them both, and how she longed for them to love each other in the way that she loved each of them. She told them how much it grieved her that they were separated. And she gave them news of herself, and some guidance on how they might live happier and more loving lives themselves. 　　When the letter was ready, she wrote out one copy for each daughter, but these copies were special. Each copy contained only every second sentence of the original letter. So the copy for one daughter had only the even sentences, and the other daughter’s copy contained only the odd sentences. Neither copy made sense on its own. Neither contained the fullness of the mother’s message. 　　When the two daughters received their letters, they were puzzled, until it dawned on them what had happened. If they really wanted to know what their loving mother had written, they would have to put their two letters together, and read them as one. And that meant that they would have to approach one another again in mutual love and respect. 　　For a long time, the mother waited in vain for an answer to her letter. There were questions, from both the daughters. There were complicated efforts on both their parts to make sense of the half?鄄letter each of them possessed. There were recriminations. Each daughter thought she knew her mother better than her sister ever could. Each daughter